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GOP amendment would bring nationwide ban on LGBTQ adoption

The national Republican Party may vote on an amended measure that would bar all gay, lesbian, and other community members from adopting children. The Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives ...

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Final efforts to pass anti-LGBTQ adoption bill fail as Georgia legislative session ends

Last-ditch efforts to pass an anti-LGBTQ adoption bill failed on the final day of the 2018 Georgia legislative session on Thursday, and for the fifth straight year, the session ended with the state avoiding pas...

Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams: Anti-LGBTQ adoption bill ‘harms Georgia’s most vulnerable children’

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has come out against an anti-LGBTQ adoption bill that passed out of committee Tuesday morning and will hit the Senate floor for a vote any day now. Senate Bill 3...

Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle vows to sign 'religious freedom' measure.

Cagle: Pass adoption bill without ‘religious freedom’ measure

Georgia’s Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle doesn’t want the issue of adoption to turn into a discussion on so-called “religious freedom.” “I don’t want us to get caught up in a religious liberty debate on the adoption b...

Property fathers: Atlanta gay couple flips houses to fund adoptions

Atlanta residents Josh and Joey Bolton-Rogers are now fathers of two children. But due to the cost of adoption, their family wouldn’t have been able to be completed without some extra income. “We just became...